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New comment by draven in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

draven — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:38:27 +0000

Same, and most of the times it’s when I sleep longer. Perhaps because there’s a lot of REM sleep towards the end of the night (as my Garmin watch tells me) and/or because I’m kind of half awake at that time. So maybe dream recall indicates I slept a whole night

New comment by draven in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

draven — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:58:51 +0000

Also: M-x artist-mode in emacs.

New comment by draven in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

draven — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:34:04 +0000

I was thinking about this and wonder if a LLM trained exclusively on the language spec and API docs would be able to generate code in it?

New comment by draven in "Vibe a Guitar Pedal"

draven — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:41:42 +0000

I agree a good multi-effect is useful to learn what the different effects actually do, but there are good entry-level multi-effect pedals that are cheaper than that. And this pedal can only have one effect at a time.

Also, it seems there's no preview in their AI playground, so you have to burn tokens and upload the effect to test it, and it may take lots of iterations to get what you want.

So I think this could mainly interest developers who are able to use it as a platform to develop their own effects without going through the AI thing, and beginners who want to be able to use different community effects to test things.

New comment by draven in "Vibe a Guitar Pedal"

draven — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:11:36 +0000

They should have used a screen for the front plate and have the IA generate a visual. But then they'd pass the $20 per plate.

I don't like these kind of products, what I get in breadth I lose in depth, it's like having a enormous Steam library but only play the first half an hour of each game because I have limited time to invest and too many things. I'm already overwhelmed with my Katana 100.

New comment by draven in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

draven — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:08:16 +0000

> Don’t try to interact with a windows desktop while it is still booting up

I experience the same with macOS. For example Discord steals focus.

New comment by draven in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

draven — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:12:54 +0000

What's trollish about his blog ?

New comment by draven in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

draven — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:54:15 +0000

I started to use PTA several times already, and I always have an issue with the granularity of transactions. For example when I go to the local supermarket, do I track food and hygiene products separately ? Some supermarkets give the subtotal for different categories, some don´t. It could be useful to see where the money goes.

I'm about to start out again and I chose not to track different categories individually, knowing that I can still add sub-accounts to distinguish between them later (even if I can´t recover the information for older transactions.)

Now I just need to investigate how to track gains/losses on the ETFs I own but that's common enough that there should be information out there on how to do it.

New comment by draven in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

draven — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:49:46 +0000

It was more about everything since the Amiga being a regression. BeOS was sometimes called a successor (in spirit) to the Amiga : a fun, snappy, single-user OS.

I regularly install HaikuOS in a VM to test it and I think I could probably use it as a daily driver, but ported software often does not feel completely right.

New comment by draven in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

draven — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:53:09 +0000

What about BeOS ?

New comment by draven in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

draven — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:12:51 +0000

Scala has the @tailrec annotation which will raise a warning if the function can’t be TCO’d

New comment by draven in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

draven — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:05:26 +0000

My windows are insulated. Is it more expensive than a screen/camera/electronics ?

New comment by draven in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

draven — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:01:15 +0000

Why don't they make part of the door with that magical see-through material my windows are made of ?

New comment by draven in "It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead"

draven — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:53:04 +0000

> Sam’s girlfriend, theorized that in the hospital Sam didn’t want to be a bother and didn’t advocate for himself

I'm like that and it sucks, I now bring my wife to medical appointments so she can complain for me while I downplay everything.

New comment by draven in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

draven — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:05:24 +0000

I learned english at school in France, and we're notoriously bad at teaching foreign languages. The approach is way to academic and mainly based on reading. That's why our accents are often atrocious. I was good at written tests, but what allowed me to actually get fluent (as in being able to think in english and convert my thoughts to speech in real time) was watching tv series in english with subtitles in english (no translation involved.)

New comment by draven in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

draven — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:48:07 +0000

omakub (https://omakub.org/) is/was (for Ubuntu), this looks more like a "real" Arch derivative.

New comment by draven in "Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank"

draven — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:44:03 +0000

If you don't have a minimum of comfort you'll have a bad night and wake up exhausted the next day.

New comment by draven in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

draven — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 16:26:20 +0000

The water can still be used to cool down the reactors. But the water injected back into the river would then be too hot for the river's ecosystem.

New comment by draven in "The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction"

draven — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:57:15 +0000

Thank you, now I have to get this and put it in my already too high pile of books to read !

New comment by draven in "The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction"

draven — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:25:42 +0000

This seems similar to the method used by Robert Greene (and Ryan Holiday who learned it from him, and many others.) I just started using it (as in: I bought notecards and a box to store them.)

This would be a good overview of the method: https://billyoppenheimer.com/notecard-system/